Exclusive: Sperm re-transplant offers hope that boys left infertile by chemotherapy could have biological children one day

In a groundbreaking fertility trial, a man whose testicular tissue was frozen before he underwent chemotherapy as a child to be re-transplanted 16 years later has been able to produce sperm.

It is the first time a transplant of cryopreserved prepubertal testicular tissue...

The launch of the new studio follows a year of readership growth and rising advertiser demand.

Intel’s Panther Lake and its 18A manufacturing node have put the US chip maker back in the fight with Apple and AMD.

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The sequencing reflects how stubbornly low-end devices and machine-to-machine sensors remain tied to legacy connectivity.

The Competition Commission has alleged that Altech UEC agreed not to challenge MultiChoice in the pay-TV market.

While most schools are still drafting AI policies, CambriLearn is already deploying AI tools in classrooms.

How Cape Town start-up AI Diagnostics is teaching AI to hear the tuberculosis cases human clinicians often miss.

The bluebuck antelope joins the mammoth, dodo and dire wolf on Colossal Biosciences’ de-extinction list.

Washington has widened curbs on Chinese testing labs, data centres and telecoms carriers in its latest decoupling push.

The videogame retailer and meme-stock star has built a 5% stake and lined up $20-billion in debt to pursue eBay.

Rodent-carried disease is not usually contagious between humans and outbreaks are rare. ‘New world’ variants are the most deadly. What are the symptoms and treatment?

Three passengers on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The outbreak was reported on the polar cruise ship MV Hondius, which was...

Two unnamed officials face precautionary suspension as the fallout from the withdrawn draft AI policy widens further.

Best seen before dawn, the shower will reach its peak on the night of 5–6 May

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower bursts upon the skies this week, reaching its peak on the night of 5–6 May.

Best seen before dawn, the chart shows the view looking east from London at 4am on 6 May. By this time, the shower’s radiant point will have climbed into the south-eastern sky.

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On ‘Star Wars day’, researchers more than double the number of potential known ‘circumbinary’ planets like the fictional Tatooine, home to Luke Skywalker

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Astronomers have discovered 27 new potential planets that orbit two stars, like the fictional desert planet Tatooine from the...

Big Dog Ranch Rescue made deal to buy 1,500 dogs from Ridglan Farms, a Wisconsin breeding and research facility

The first beagles removed from a Wisconsin dog breeding and research facility that was the site of recent protests seemed to know right away that they were safe.

“They started within an hour or so coming up to us, wanting attention. Some crawled in people’s laps. Every single one...

Further three people taken ill, including 69-year-old Briton reported to be in intensive care in South Africa

Three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic.

One case of hantavirus infection had been confirmed and there were five additional suspected cases, the World Health Organization told Agence France-Presse on Sunday.

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An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.

Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflight

It should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the...